'Scottish' words in other countries

[Icantremembermyusername]

Inspired by a thread on here about apple and pear squash (aka as diluting juice North of the border), what other Scottish words or phrases have been met with blank looks?
For me, it was 'jotters' (books you jot things down in, so essentially exercise books) and 'gutties' (black plimsolls for primary school PE).
Any others? Been here so long I've probably forgotten most!

Oh and saying "the now" "the day" and "the morra"

"I'm going to do it the now."

I've never heard of or used outwith though, can anyone give examples of context and where are you from? I'm originally South Lanarkshire and now reside in West Coast xx

@Icantremembermyusername
This question is outwith the normal parameters.
People from outwith Scotland rarely use this word.
That's outwith the remit of this forum.

I keep remembering more.

My partner was recently baffled by my disappointment at how the new duvet covers pick up "oose" really easily.

Ahenst, furnenst (against, outside of a wall for example

Thon
Look at the cut o' thon! - look at the state of that person

Yonder
Yon - look at yon. (Look at that over there)

Clampet - Silly person (I think this also means a cow pat)

Sheugh - a small stream or ditch

And many others are all used in NI.

Do you mind = do you remember. It took me a while to work out this can be quite confusing for English speakers who hear it as do you care or the annoyed ‘do you mind!’. Numerous occasions of being looked at in bafflement in England when I’ve said ‘do you mind when…’. Gave that phrase up twenty years ago due to incomprehension, and it’s a shame.

Ba’heid = ball head = foolish person. Ditto numpty.

Skoosh = juice = diluting juice = squash.

Got beat = were beaten.

Tatties = potatoes.

All this makes me miss my dear gran, who’s have been 101 and who spoke broad Scots. She was the best.

@ILoveYouMoreTheEnd

I've never heard of or used outwith though, can anyone give examples of context and where are you from? I'm originally South Lanarkshire and now reside in West Coast xx

It pretty much translates to "outside of". As PP said, 'outwith my remit' is a common place to find it. Or "there are no [somethings] inside the city border but there are outwith."

@corlan

My Uncle was a great teller of jokes which everyone but me - a Londoner- would find hilarious. I would always need the joke explained. I remember one about 'two tolleys in the road' and another where the punchline was ' your ballop's open' - went straight over my head!

Is that a tart or a meringue?
No you're right it's a tart.

Bad-dum tsshh!

The day- also this day, for emphasis.
I haven't got any work done this day !

@GromblesofGrimbledon love that joke also "how come that cake is £2 but that one there is only £1?" "Because that's Madeira cake"

Examples/context for outwith are generally in pretty formal language. I think this is what obscures the fact that it is a local usage - it doesn’t appear in what we normally think of as vernacular phrases.

‘Please do not ring the bell outwith normal business hours.’

‘There are many examples given of tartan trews being worn in Perthshire, Ayrshire and the surrounding areas, but none reported outwith Scotland’

‘There is a green hill far, far away, outwith a city wall.’

@Icantremembermyusername

Love, love, love SHOOGLY! There's no real translation!

I've been doing Gaelic Duolingo for a while and was really tickled to see that Gaelic for a loose tooth was fiacail chugallach (fiacail is tooth and chugallach is pronounced fairly close to shoogly).

Cupboard = preas (press)
Hush = ist (wheesht)

Both languages have affected each other though so it's tricky to know which came first (bye is tioraidh (pn cheery) but apparently cheerio came first.

Certainly makes some words easier to remember. S' e math fhèin!

I use sleekit and footer regularly. Fish supper met with blank looks here in SE England too. I remember ecker for homework but that might be Irish?

One of my favourites is thrawn. Always used by my mum about my dad, but equally could be used for her. As it means really determined and not willing to give in to someone else on their opinion. I’m a highlander exiled in England for the last 35 years so many expressions have waned over that time. But many slip out, especially shoogly!

Well I lived in England for a few years but had no idea that outwith was a Scottish word. How would other people say ‘outwith the normal parameters’ or some of the other phrases suggested above?

Earwig for me is a forkie tailie. End of bread the heelie. Skelf confused an English relative the other day.

Jeezo, as an exclamation

Yes to thrawn too!

@Babdoc

I'm English, but came to Dundee as a medical student in the 1970s and stayed in Scotland ever since. I was v amused by the Dundonian patients' grading of illness: "He's no awfy weel" = he has a mild illness "He's no weel" = he is fairly ill "He's awfy no weel!" = he is in intensive care.

I too am a Dundee trained doctor and also an actual Dundonian and I remember explaining this in detail to my tutor group in first year, I was the only Scottish one and they were so confused 😆

Gey jimp - awfully short/tight

Haar - sea mist on east coast of Scotland

Close - passage between house

Tenement - block of flats

Stovies - Scottish soul food. Can be made with sausages or corned beef.

@ChocolateDeficitDisorder

I've never heard of or used outwith though, can anyone give examples of context and where are you from? I'm originally South Lanarkshire and now reside in West Coast xx

@Icantremembermyusername
This question is outwith the normal parameters.
People from outwith Scotland rarely use this word.
That's outwith the remit of this forum.

Yeah, I use it regularly in formal language. Drives me up the wall when I submit a paper somewhere and it gets edited out or some reviewer highlights it with "???"

Is my mission to make outwith accepted within the scientific community!

My dad used to say "we're aw Jock Tamson's bairns" and "Gonnae no" long before Chewin the fat popularised it. It a fascinating one:

Gonnae - going to
Gonnae No - ? going to no? = Please don't do that

Loved the use of "chuckies" for little stones/gravel when I was in Dundee

Also love "Ca' canny" for take it easy/carefully

Outwith was a term I first picked up working as a secretary for the Police and then the Council. It seemed to be very much used in business writing.

Collie buckie - piggy back

Peevers/Peever Beds/Beds - hopscotch

Jooglie - same as shoogly

I live on the English side but very close to the border. Some we have here are:
Getting wrong-being told off.
Shabby-ill
Bari- really nice, eg aw she's Bari
Plaffs-feet
Mooty- dirty
Deek- look
Loads more but I don't always know how to spell them!

I think I've used outwith most recently as 'outwith the realms of possibility'.

That’s interesting @TrashyPanda - I was a schemie (Castlemilk and Barmulloch) and a close to us was the entrance hall and stairway. “He lives up our close”

Earwigs were forkietails.

Throughout my career I’ve worked extensively across all of the UK and I’m still bemused that there is no equivalent for “outwith” outwith Scotland! (Geezo - even Mumsnet doesn’t recognise outwith! )

'Thrawn' equals obstinate or stubborn for me! I'm red up with all the Scotthisms so far!